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W. H; YOUNG.

GABLBJTRAGTION RAILWAY TRACK.

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1 UNITED STATE PATENT, CFFIcE;

"WILLIAM H. YOUNG, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR ONEIIALF TO WILLIAM J. MORDEN, OF SAME PLACE.

CABL E-TRACTION-YRAILWAY TRACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,922, dated March 20, 1888.

I Application filed August 9, 1887. Serial No. 246,492. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cable-Traction- Railway Tracks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The nature of my invention relates to the construction of tunnels and tracks for cable railways, and more particularly to the connection of the track-rails to the yokes in a quick and more substantial manner; and with that object in view myinvention consists of a casting adapted to be clamped upon the side extensions of the yokes that form the skeleton for the tunnel, and which castings form the chairs A denotes one of the yokes that are inserted in the ground for forming the cable-tunnel and for providing supports for the track and slit rails, which yoke in this case consists of a V- shaped frame, a, and a heart-shaped frame, b,

both bent of T-iron, and the frame b secured between the shanks of frame a by rivets, The frame bbeing open in its upper end, Z-bars D are secured thereto that form the slit for the cable-grip, the side extension, d, of frame a of yoke A forming the supports for the trackrails E. These rails wereformerly secured to wooden stringersthat were bolted upon these extensions d,- but these stringers, rotting away within a limited time, were frequently the cause of expensive repairing, interfering with the regular traffic, and therefore my improvement consist in providing cast-iron chairs, each made of two sections, F. and F.

The sections F and F have vertical flanges f, providing an intermediate groove, g, that corresponds in shapewith the base and web of the rails, E, to be inserted therein. The said sections F F are also provided with a horizontal plate portion orbase, 9, adapted to overlie and be secured to or upon the extension d of the yoke by any suitable means. As one-means of securing said part I have shown the base formed with grooves h, which embrace the upper extensions of the yoke, and is secured by a single bolt or rivet passedthrough holes 1' in vertical flanges j. I

It will be readily seen that a rail-chair thus constructed can be quickly attached and secured by clamping upon the yoke, and will hold the rail placed into or through the groove of-v the same in a very rigid position. Brace-rods K may be attached in any usual manner.

While in the foregoing description I have specified in detail the several parts embraced in the construction of tracks that are old, and to which my improvement is supplementary,

I have also given in detail the parts involved in this example of my invention as selected for illustration; yet the scope of my improve- 5 ment, in fact, embraces the substitution of chairs seated above the tunnel-yoke in the construction of tramways for cable cars that are adapted to support rails in suspension-that is, furnish supports at intervals along the rails-and thereby supplant the expensive and rapidly-deteriorating wooden stringers. It is of great importance as bearing upon the cost of construction that these supplementary chairs shall be as light in weight as consistent with their function, and also as simple in eonstruction as will effectually serve the purpose for which they are designed, yet any'particular form for securing them to the structure is not important. There is one condition, however, 0 that I deem essential, and that is a vertical channeli-n the chair to receive and support the web of the rail, and also deem it essential that the chair be made in two or more parts adapted to be fitted together and clamped or 5 bolted upon or above the yoke and firmly secured thereto, the clamping being such as to prevent the chairs from movement in the direction of the rail length, 'which'would preferably be transversely thereto, asshown. I

What I claim is 1. In cable traction railways, chairs as interval bearings for the rails that are provided with channels or recesses adapted to receive and support the web of the rail, and that are also formed of two or more parts that meet with a joint in line with and adapting them to be clamped and secured to or upon the yoke of the substructure.

T-extensions of the yokes from opposite sides and for clamping the same by a single bolt, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, with yoke A and rails E, of cast-metal chairs, each made in two sections, with groovesin their bases for grasping the T-extensions of the yoke from opposite sides and for securing the same by clamping with a single bolt, each such chair being provided with an upper groove for inserting and holding the track-rails, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. YOUNG.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM H. LoTz, A. MARITZEN. 

